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Former Territorial Prelature of

Klaipėda

Lithuania Lithuania

Continent: East Europe

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Territorial Prelature Territorial Prelature

Name: Klaipėda / Klaipeden(sis) (Latin)

United to: Telšiai

Past Ordinaries

Prelates of Klaipėda (Roman Rite)

Bishop Antanas Vaičius
(Apostolic Administrator 1982.07.05 – 1991.12.24)

Bishop Juozapas Pletkus
(1967.11.08 – 1975.09.29)

Born:1895.05.28
Ordained Priest:1921.05.05
Consecrated Bishop:1968.02.25
Died:1975.09.29 († 80)

Titular Bishop of Tubia (1967.11.08 – 1975.09.29)

Apostolic Administrator of Telšiai (Lithuania) (1967.11.08 – 1975.09.29)

Bishop-Prelate of Klaipėda (Lithuania) (1967.11.08 – 1975.09.29)

Bishop Petras Mazelis
(1949.12.20 – 1966.05.21)

Born:1894.09.21
Ordained Priest:1923.06.15
Consecrated Bishop:1955.09.11
Died:1966.05.21 († 71)

Bishop-Prelate of Klaipėda (Lithuania) (1949.12.20 – 1966.05.21)

Titular Bishop of Celenderis (1955.05.22 – 1964.02.14)

Auxiliary Bishop of Telšiai (Lithuania) (1955.05.22 – 1964.02.14)

Apostolic Administrator of Telšiai (Lithuania) (1959.11.10 – 1964.02.14)

Bishop of Telšiai (Lithuania) (1964.02.14 – 1966.05.21)

Bishop Maximilian Josef Johannes Kaller
(Apostolic Administrator 1939.06.10 – 1947.07.07)

Bishop Justinas Staugaitis
(1926.04.05 – 1939)

Born:1866.11.14
Ordained Priest:1890.06.24
Consecrated Bishop:1926.05.24
Died:1943.07.08 († 76)

Bishop-Prelate of Klaipėda (Lithuania) (1926.04.05 – 1939)

Bishop of Telšiai (Lithuania) (1926.04.05 – 1943.07.08)

History

Last updated on 2023.01.27

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